Win the Ding 1617

"Henan Ming Dynasty was the land of the imperial court, but it was actually a den of thieves and bandits. The people of Henan loved the thieves but not the officials, and helped the bandits but not the army. When the officers and soldiers marched to Henan, they could not communicate with each other, and it was difficult to collect food and grass. Plenty. The source of this is that the New Deal has not been implemented. Therefore, it is advisable to follow the example of Shandong, first investigate the officials and gentry who have cleared up the thieves, and then promote the reduction of rent and interest and the integration of officials and gentry. "

Similar words appeared in the inscriptions given to Chongzhen by the two chief soldiers of Luo Tan, and in the memorials written by Li Huayu to the Ministry of War and the cabinet about the evacuation of Kaifeng.

What does that mean?That is to say, Henan no longer has the basis for the officers and soldiers to survive.The common people don't regard the official army as the imperial army, let alone eat pots of pulp to welcome the king's teacher.If you don't go to the Peasant Army to inform you, you will be doing you a favor!In the final analysis, it is the reason why Henan still has not implemented the New Deal.

After these questions are posted, it would be a lie to say that the imperial court did not respond.The imperial decree of the emperor came down soon.The local officials in Henan were ordered to implement the new policy in Henan, Guide, Kaifeng and other places, and implement the system of one errand and one payment. However, these court officials are purely talking nonsense with their eyes open.

At this time, the above-mentioned areas were all under the control of Li Zicheng. It is true that the new policies of the imperial court were slowly being implemented. However, it was not the officials of the Ming Dynasty who implemented these systems, but Li Zicheng's subordinates!We will not list these things for the time being.

As for the neighboring province of Shandong and the more distant Denglai, what is the situation like?

After disembarking from Laizhou Bay, what Li Shouhan saw were pieces of golden wheat fields, blowing waves of wheat waves under the gusts of hot south wind, which was pleasing to the eye.

Looking to both sides along the official road in Laizhou, as far as the eye can see, there are patches of wheat fields in a radius of dozens of miles.From time to time there are farmers working in the fields.

A carefully selected grain of wheat.After sowing, emergence, tillering, overwintering, turning green, rising, jointing, picking flags, earing, flowering, filling, maturity, and many other links, it has grown in fertile soil for 240 days, and finally it is the harvest season.

From the expressions on the faces of those farmers with dark complexions and big hands and feet, Li Shouhan knew it without asking.This year's harvest should be good, and it will even be a good harvest that these people who have been dealing with the land and crops have never encountered before.

In fact, the entire Denglai three prefectures, that is, the Jiaodong area we are familiar with, along the Jiaoji Railway to Jinan, and then from south to north, the entire Shandong is a cotton production area in China.Especially in the Gaomi area of ​​Jiaodong, not only is there red sorghum, but the quality of Gaomi wheat is better.It is recognized as the "golden and excellent wheat area", and it is known as "northeast rice, high-density wheat (noodles)" among the people.

However, the yield per mu of this large wheat field is a bit depressing.

The few officials who accompanied Li Shouhan to the south and found the officials of Gaomi County, of course they were definitely not the county magistrate who is currently in the county.It's the captain of the work team at the Qingshakou.

"How much wheat can be harvested per acre of these fields?"

Although the captain didn't know the Li family and his son.But from the many guards and other signs like stars holding the moon, it is obvious that this is definitely a big shot: "One mu of the upper field can weigh about [-] catties. The lower field is about [-] catties!"

As soon as these words came out, Li Shouhan was a little dumbfounded.It can be said that he has paid a lot of effort and price for the farms all over Shandong.From all kinds of wrought iron farm tools to encouraging farmers to accumulate manure, in order to turn Rizhao into a major cotton-producing area, they even transported guano from Ryukyu at all costs.

result.Is this the yield per mu?What is the agreed yield of several hundred catties per mu?How many stones of wheat is the agreed yield per mu?Why did it become like this as soon as it came to me?

(In fact, this is also a serious sequelae of reading too many articles on the Internet. Before liberation, the average yield of wheat per mu was less than 100 catties. In 1951, there was an article in the People’s Daily. It said that Hebei had a bumper harvest, and the wheat yield per mu was 150 catties. Therefore, Ming People’s notes say that wheat can be harvested for a few stones per mu, and various time-travel novels say that wheat can be harvested for one season. These can be regarded as satellites. The highest yield per mu and the average yield per mu are two different things.)

"We're not going to Jinan, we'll just stay in Laizhou Prefecture. When the wheat in Laizhou Prefecture is finished, we'll head south!"

According to what the chairman said, there is no right to speak without investigation and research.Li Shouhan planned to conduct an investigation in Laizhou Prefecture and dissect the sparrow.Let's see how the system I implemented in Shandong in the Denglai area is like.

"At night, the south wind blows, and the wheat is covered with yellow. Women and aunts eat with lotus, children and children carry pots of oatmeal, and go to the field, and young adults are in Nangang. The rustic atmosphere of the steaming summer, the scorching sun on the back, the heat is exhausted, but Pity the summer is long."

Bai Juyi's "Viewing the Wheat" very appropriately describes the scene of the northern rural areas during the wheat harvest season.

The fifth month of the lunar calendar is one of the hottest months in Shandong. If it is now, few people harvest summer grain by hand.Because I feel that the weather is too hot, people are too hard, and there is a combine harvester that is not used, isn't it brain damage?It is a pity that there were no combine harvesters in the late Ming Dynasty, and no farmers felt that it was hard to harvest summer grain.

In this famine year where people are starving to death everywhere, it would be nice to have a good harvest of food!People waved the sickles in their hands and worked hard to harvest the wheat.

In the fields, the landowners and Zhuangzi heads also spared no expense to put mung bean soup in large earthen jars under the shade of trees to cool down. Some landlords who are more generous and have a lot of fields even put mung bean soup some white sugar.The purpose is to enable the guys to harvest the wheat as soon as possible in the days when Longkou is seizing grain, so that the following threshing, drying, and raising the field can be carried out.

Speaking of previous years, the farmers may have been a little bit tired, because anyway, the crops in this field were either owned by the imperial court or the landlords, and they didn't have their own anyway.But this year, most of Shandong, especially the east, has strictly implemented Li Shouhan's New Deal.

If the other meanings of the New Deal for farmers are still relatively vague, the economic benefits are quite clear.The work teams walking between towns and villages will be surrounded by people every time they reach a village, and the crowd will be impenetrable.From their mouths, people learned how much land rent and money and food they had to pay for the fields they cultivated, whether they belonged to their own families or leased to landowners.Through the reduction of rent and interest and the integration of officials and gentry, the burden on farmers was greatly reduced, especially because of the involvement of Nanzhong merchants.It is no longer difficult to sell grain, and they will not be exploited commercially by grain banks, so almost all farmers are very motivated.

For the purchase of wheat and cotton, not only the merchants from the Nanzhong background are staring at it, but also the grain merchants and cotton merchants from all over the world are eyeing the fields in Shandong and Denglai.Those large farms and large farms in the Southern Guangdong Army system.Whether Shanxi merchants or Jiangnan merchants, naturally they dare not make up their minds, but they can influence the big and small landlords all over the states and counties.

Ever since, for the cotton and wheat still in the fields, an invisible battle started quietly as early as March and April.The object of the battle is grain and cotton.

Everyone knows that having wheat means holding the key to open the silver box, and having cotton.Then there is cloth.No matter who it is, it will not be merciful in the face of huge interests.

However, after several battles, whether Shanxi merchants or Jiangnan Hui merchants, they all found sadly that their financial resources seemed to be far from their opponents.Facing the abundant cash of Nanzhong businessmen and the attractive industrial coupons, farmers and landowners all over the world made wise choices.

The reason!very simple.In addition to those cute little silver-white discs and those farm tools shining with blue-blue metallic light, there are more facts.

From last winter to this spring in Shandong, it can be said to be particularly lively.First, Abate invaded, followed by a arduous counterattack against Abate, and then the Beijing camp was ordered to do justice for the sky. All these have already stunned the farmers in Shandong.As a result, what happened later made them feel that what happened before was nothing at all.

After expelling Abatai, the Southern Guangdong Army took power and went to the countryside or even the villages, while unceremoniously throwing the witches and gods entrenched in various villages to do hard work.Grab the market share of treating people's bodies and souls, which was originally controlled by them, and let the accompanying doctors spread various medical and health knowledge in various places.At the same time as distributing medicines, Nanzhong merchants are selling new farm tools and improved varieties, and there is also a fertilizer that is said to be overseas bird droppings.It's a pity that these fertilizers are given priority to the cotton fields of large farms in Shandong, and it is not the turn of ordinary farmers.But even so.With sharp and strong iron and steel farm tools and improved seeds, people can plow the land more deeply, avoiding diseases and insect pests, and this year's year is not bad, so the wheat yield in many places has reached an astonishing [-] catties per mu.

Not to mention that ordinary peasants are happy, even the landowners and gentry who gritted their teeth and cursed the New Deal were quite surprised. After a general calculation, although their land rent income has decreased, other income But it has increased a lot.It's a very simple reason, the poor ghosts have food in their hands and some money, so they have to buy something.Calculated in this way, this year's income is far more than I expected.

If the development continues like this and the food continues to increase, doesn't it mean that his income may even be more than before?What kind of magic did these southern barbarians use to increase production like magic?Thanks to Li Shouhan's authorization and previous business experience, Nanzhong merchants launched the small loan business in a timely manner.Farmers can use these loans to buy agricultural tools, clothing, food and medicine in the hands of Nanzhong merchants, and these loans are almost interest-free, as long as you sell the grain to Nanzhong merchants after you harvest the grain, you can repay it by the way.This form of loan is very vividly known as buying young crops.

For a while, not only the poor and lower-middle peasants, but even the small landlords and rich peasants were rejoicing, because in the past, such loans had always been an important means of exploitation by the big landlords.Now not only the rent interest rate has been reduced, but even Nanzhong Occasionally finds a way to solve the situation that is most likely to cause Hades’ debts, so what else can I say, work hard!

As a result, all villages in Shandong are rushing to harvest summer grain. It is true that they get up earlier than the chickens and finish work later than the lady. Some people even propose a night battle with lights in order to harvest the summer grain as quickly as possible.Of course, the landowners in various places and the farms of the Southern Guangdong Army had to steam a few more pots of rice and prepare more greasy dishes to reward the guys who worked hard and sweated profusely.Although this kind of thing is still rare after all, it has greatly stimulated the labor enthusiasm of tenants and farmers. Eating oily and watery meals twice a day in the field is a physically demanding activity of harvesting and planting. These simple peasants were crushed, and many of them gained weight, and their faces showed yearning for a better life.

And this look has indeed not appeared on their faces for a long time.

After the summer grain harvest was over, it was the turn of the officials in Shandong to be surprised.They saw a scene that they could not even imagine.After the harvest of the summer grain was completed, the grassroots cadres of the Southern Guangdong Army all over Denglai called for the handing over of the imperial court's tax bank as soon as possible.So after selling the grain, each village spontaneously organized personnel to hand over the silver dollars, and the county government was busy for a while.

Although there are people from the Southern Guangdong Army Task Force leading the team.The Household Book Offices of various county governments, referred to as Hushu for short, no longer dare to make things difficult for these peasant households who come to pay money and food, and charge various fees, but they are also a little at a loss.

Many people first check to see if the sun is rising in the west, and then secretly bite their tongues to see if they are dreaming.In the past, the key tax banks wanted to go to war.This year, it was delivered to your door on your own initiative, and it was delivered with a fucking smile on your face. Isn't this world a little too crazy?

However, if you think about it for a while, have all kinds of crazy things happened in the past six months?The household scribes from all over the country just lamented that they had encountered this year and started to collect grain.

In fact, if they are willing to go out of the county and visit the countryside, they will find out.There is more than one crazy thing.

One of the things that makes people almost bite their own tongue is that during the summer harvest, the garrisons, strong men and watch teams in Denglai and Shandong also actively participated in it.

Although there are still many places where troops are used everywhere, as early as when Li Huayu took the main force of his men to Henan, he gave orders to the garrisons everywhere, asking them to participate in the rush to harvest summer grain.There are also tens of thousands of troops from the Southern Guangdong Army system and various paramilitary militias staying in Shandong, Denglai and other places.These people are all strong laborers!

Although it is said that the army's participation in production and disaster relief is outside the routine practice of the Southern Guangdong Army.But it was unprecedented in the interior, many soldiers enlisted in the Central Plains.Even the grassroots officers are quite puzzled.Laozi serve as soldiers to eat food, when will they have to help the common people harvest crops?In view of this situation, Li Huayu especially emphasized that this summer harvest is also an assessment of the combination of two participations, one reform and three, and all troops remaining in Shandong must actively participate.Otherwise, if you fall behind in the assessment, you will understand the consequences!

For a while, the Southern Guangdong Army, from the garrison brigades to the watch team, the young men's team and other militia organizations, heard the news and used various practical actions to support Xia Harvest.Generally, most of them are directly involved in the front line of summer harvest, and directly work as laborers for the common people for free.There are also those with active minds who indirectly support Xia Harvest by making tools such as carts and carriages.And some help to restore some farmland water conservancy.It is paving the way for future production.But the most outrageous thing is that some people want to dig deep wells and build water diversion projects to expand the cotton planting area. However, because the project is huge, it needs strict approval and cannot be started immediately.Faced with this situation, the common people were first frightened and then shocked.The reason for the fear is that according to past experience, soldiers are a disaster. With so many soldiers and horses going to the countryside, can the common people still have a good life?

But the facts overturned the common people's speculation. When the army and militia began to help production in various ways, it was replaced by shock.Is there any mistake, when your army goes to the civilian population, if you don't grab food or catch flower girls, this is still called an army?Not to mention helping with the work, making tools and even repairing water conservancy, make no mistake, this should be something that a certain kind-hearted person can only do if he is old enough.You have done all these things, what are you asking the great benevolent people to do?The army does not rob and only does good deeds, so where is the face of the Holy Master Mingjun?But it's great, it would be great if such a day could always exist.

The people who woke up from the shock also began to give back to the army in various ways. In the beginning, the army stationed outside the village and set up temporary shacks to avoid misunderstandings among the common people.In addition, the army's food was also taken care of by the villages. In order to show their gratitude, the villagers even borrowed money from Nanzhong merchants to buy porcelain pots of meat, chicken, bacon, and other foods they thought were the best for the army.However, this kind of behavior was strictly rejected by the army. In addition to discipline, the army also complained in their hearts. Don’t be kidding, the barracks only eat this every now and then. How can it be the same in another place?If you have that thought, why can't you get some fresh meat and vegetables? !

In addition to production, the army also consciously undertakes the work of maintaining law and order.First of all, you need to know that this is not the 21st century, but the end of Ming Dynasty, so the law and order is poor.If it weren't for the operation of the Nanyue Army, Shandong would have been a den of bandits long ago.Although after the war, the suppression of bandits, and the construction of base areas, the large groups of bandits were either wiped out or ran away, but there are still many small groups of bandits roaming around the province.As for the large groups of poles and horse thieves running around the borders of Shandong, there are also quite a few.There are also various officers and soldiers whose eyes are blue with hunger!

In this famine-ridden situation, Shandong has achieved an unprecedented bumper harvest. In the eyes of everyone, there is no reason not to eat fat meat in front of them.

Therefore, defending the summer harvest by force is also the heaviest and most urgent task of the army.Fortunately, due to the foundation laid by the previous fight against Abatai, the common people are extremely supportive of the army's suppression of bandits.Therefore, the whole Shandong is the soft ground of the Southern Guangdong Army and the hard ground of all kinds of thieves.Some unscrupulous bandits just robbed a village and happily drove their horses and chariots to transport the looted food away. Before the army could do anything, gongs from eight villages rang in response, and the sound of killing echoed from all directions.Many bandits ran away in fright without fighting at all, but they often found out sadly that the tricks they used to deal with various official, army and militia groups were useless in the Nanyue Army.Speaking of running, the Nanyue Army ran faster than them, and could run better than them!

So after several battles, basically no one dared to think about the wheat in Shandong. Although the meat is quite fat, life is more important.

During the wheat harvest and the bandit suppression war, Nanzhong’s cadres were also tested. Most of them were freshmen who graduated from various schools in Nanzhong.However, most of the cadres proved that they could stand the test. During the summer harvest, they worked hard from dawn to dusk, and once they found bandits, they immediately led the masses to charge into battle.There was once a Nanzhong cadre who found out that bandits had entered the village and chopped down five bandits with only a Nanzhong shovel.It's just that what made him laugh and cry afterwards was that Nanzhong's shovel was very popular, but he, an advertising actor, didn't get a performance fee.Of course, this was a joke, and he didn't count on it.In short, through the summer harvest and the suppression of bandits, the achievements of the New Deal in Shandong have been consolidated, the grassroots regime has been strengthened, and the army has established a good fish-water relationship with the people.It can be said that Shandong is already heavily fortified at this time, and any random attack is tantamount to death.

The information was sent to Li Shouhan and Li Huayu through various channels. Both father and son were very proud and gratified.To say it's different, Li Shouhan thought, hmph, the great grandfather's trick is also something you can fight against?Li Huayu thought, Shandong has been consolidated, so in the future, if we fight for world hegemony, who can be our opponent? (To be continued..)